Colben 2

Colben ‘of Lach Dennis’ (Ches.), fl. 1066
Male
CPL
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Name

Colben

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Cheshire 26,12 Lach Dennis Colben Colben 'of Lach Dennis' - Hugh, earl Moran 0.50 0.00 0.40 - Map
Cheshire 9,27 Goostrey Colben Colben 'of Lach Dennis' - Hugh, earl William fitzNigel 0.25 0.00 0.00 - Map
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Profile

The only two estates in the country which DB assigns to Colben were less than 5 miles apart on either side of Rudheath. They clearly belonged to the same person TRE, though after the Conquest Earl Hugh gave them to different subtenants.

The larger of the two holdings was Lach Dennis, where a second manor belonged TRE to Hasten 2 (Ches. 9:29). Each was assessed at ½ hide and had land for 1 plough. Together with the fact that both men had names of Scandinavian origin and were of similar status, this looks like a recent division between close kinsmen. The vill was called Lach (Lece) in 1086, but its later name, Lach Dennis, included a suffix probably formed from the adjective Danish, and referring to the origin of the family whose members evidently still possessed it in 1066 (PN Ches. II, 186–8). There was a second, larger manor at Goostrey (Ches. 11:4).

There is no reason to think that the minor landowner Colben was identical with the moneyer who struck coins at Chester twenty-five years earlier as Colbeinn or with the (same?) moneyer Colbin working at Derby around 1060 (EMC 1040.1775; 1002.1145).

Bibliography


EMC: On-line Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds/Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/emc